Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Morning News 3/30/10


The Earth is round, the pope is catholic and Ricky Martin is gay. I'm not even going to link to it because you can find it yourself if you feel the need to yawn.

General John "Jackass" Sheehan apologizes to the Dutch for his jackassery.

Yes Ruprecht, we're going to Oklahoma! Bill designed to ignore LGBT inclusive hate crimes law accidentally ignores protections for race and religion. (Keep the cork on the fork guys.)

Here's y'all's Passover hootenanny (with a hat tip to Vipies):

(From cornerstone music's youtube channel)

The Flaming Chef didn't post the evening news last night because he was busy baking a batch of bittersweet chocolate brownies for Dr. Snickerdoodle to take to work for his peeps. The house smelled like hot chocolate and it was the perfect antidote to a cold, gray and windy day.

(Screen capture detail of Steve Martin as Ruprecht from Orion Pictures 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Directed by Frank Oz and Costarring one of my very favorite actors on the planet: Michael Caine. It is a great film, full of wonderful performances. I'm sure you can spot Barbara Harris, but can you spot Emperor Palpatine?)

1 comment:

  1. Re Oklahoma bill: "Oh, shit. Wait-- what'd this thing do? Oh yeah. No, wait-- oh, FUCK."

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